anonymous struct problems

[Ben Guthro]

excellent. thanks for this pointer, that worked.

For future reference on this list, this flag seems to be mutually 
exclusive to the -pedantic flag,
as well as the (naturally) -ansi flag, both of which are enabled by 
default in KDevelop.


Ben

llewelly@xmission.com wrote:

>Ben Guthro <bguthro@sequelimaging.com> writes:
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>>I'm running into a problem that I did not have in previous versions of
>>gcc
>>(I'm running 3.3.2-1 - shipped with Redhat Fedora Core1)
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>>previous versions of gcc only gave me warnings on this code:
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>>typedef struct DigitalMonitorPhotometry
>>{
>>	union
>>	{
>>		struct
>>		{
>>			DMC Brightness;
>>			DMC Contrast;
>>			DMC RedGain;
>>			DMC GreenGain;
>>			DMC BlueGain;
>>			DMC RedBias;
>>			DMC GreenBias;
>>			DMC BlueBias;
>>		};
>>		struct
>>		{
>>			DMC dmp[8];
>>		};
>>	};
>>}DM_PHOTOMETRYSETUP;
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>>However, now I get:
>>error: ISO C++ prohibits anonymous structs
>>
>>This used to be a worning under previous gcc versions.
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>If you really need this feature, try adding -fms-extensions to your
>    CFLAGS. fsf gcc 3.3.3 will compile your code with -fms-extensions
>    and 'typedef char DMC;', on i386 freebsd 5.2p2 .
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>See http://xrl.us/budy and search for '-fms-extensions'.
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